Well, the Republicans gained control of the Senate, and even gained more seats in the House. But will they do anything with it? What are your hopes for the next two years? Any early impressions based on what we’ve seen since Tuesday? Are you now more optimistic about getting a decent President elected in 2016? These questions and more on tonight’s show.

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“Cotton, meanwhile, studied the neoconservative icon Leo Strauss at Harvard. Cotton’s Strauss-inflected senior thesis amounts to an extended defense of the theory that intellectually gifted elites should rule. “Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious,” he writes.”